Man killed in Harvey

Michael DeMocker / The Times-PicayuneA young man sits by a street filled with evidence markers after a person was shot to death in the 3800 block of Dulaney Drive in Harvey on Saturday, May 21, 2011.

A man was shot in Harvey Saturday evening, was taken to the hospital by another man, and later died while he was there, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.

Brian Stephen, 26, was talking near his house in the 3800 block of Dulaney Drive with a man named Michael Berry, who was in the driver's seat of a Land Rover. Two men drove past them in a what might have been a gray or silver Nissan, according to investigators. The car stopped, and the two walked out of the vehicle, walked toward Stephen and Berry and began shooting at Stephen.

Berry began to drive away, and Stephen climbed in the back while the two men kept firing.

Police received 911 calls of gunshots around 7:20 p.m., said spokesman for the sheriff's office John Fortunato. Police later found a Land Rover in Meadowcrest Hospital's parking lot that had multiple bullet holes in the passenger side and rear, and learned that Stephen died from gunshot wounds to the head and back less than an hour after arriving.

Crime scene technicians recovered a number of spent 9-millimeter and 40-caliber spent shell casings in the 3800 block of Dulaney Drive, Fortunato said.

Anyone with information in this matter is asked to contact the sheriff's homicide division at 364-5300 or Crimestoppers at 822-1111.